Born 1979 in Timisoara, Romania. In 2011, she graduated from the Munich film school. Her graduation film SILENT RIVER celebrated its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2011 and was nominated as best short film for the European Film Award in 2011. Lazarescu’s feature film, HAPPINESS SUCKS (2018) was nominated at the German Film Awards in 2019. In 2018, she directed the mini-series HACKERVILLE for HBO and TNT, which was awarded the Grimme Award in 2019. In 2019, Lazarescu became jury president of the International Festival of Film Schools Munich, the young talents' edition of the Munich Film Festival. She also teaches as a lecturer at the University of Television and Film Munich. Lazarescu is a member of the German, Romanian and European Film Academy.